Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Well- I don’t agree at all with what she did. She reneged on her commitment to her teammates. That is fvcked up. If one is struggling with mental health, sort it out before getting on the plane to Tokyo, or just stay home. If I were her teammate I’d have some choice words for her.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
www.latimes.com
If this is the case, our media is once again doing a disservice by framing this as a mental health issue.I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
Something about losing track while spinning around up in the air or something.
Doesn't sound like something you could just muscle your way through.
Simone Biles had 'the twisties.' A gymnast explains the sport's dreaded mental block
Gymnasts and coaches explain how many cope with "the twisties," which prompted Simone Biles to withdraw from team and all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
I'm okay with her quitting. I'm not okay with her calling herself the GOAT. Those two don't correlate, she needs to mature a bit more.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Described as a “mental block.” The same as when a kicker gets iced in football or a 90% FT basketball player clanks a free throw at the end of a game. Pressure situations. Could she be hurt much worse than those situations? Yes - but bottom line is she had no confidence. “Twisties” is a clever moniker for that.I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
Something about losing track while spinning around up in the air or something.
Doesn't sound like something you could just muscle your way through.
Simone Biles had 'the twisties.' A gymnast explains the sport's dreaded mental block
Gymnasts and coaches explain how many cope with "the twisties," which prompted Simone Biles to withdraw from team and all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
Agree with your conclusion about good upbringings. But it still doesn’t give her a pass. She was fine competing in the last Olympics. The pressure is what got to her. Maybe her mental makeup was negatively influenced by the events you described - but we all are products of our upbringings to an extent. Some overcome it. Others don’t. But an Olympic athlete, abused as a child or not, should know if she mentally isn’t there well before the day of the competition.
Time and place for her past. Not the olympics. She selfishly also screwed her team.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Being on the Olympic team is not compulsory. It's a privilege that many athletes would kill for. If you can't "deal with your demons in front of billions", you should let someone else take your place. Can you imagine Tom Brady deciding, the day before Super Bowl, that he has some unresolved issues from his past and that he's going to sit it out. I wonder how many people would be defending him (this is a rhetorical question; the answer is "zero").
I'd suck it up like the time I didn't win for my team in high school and train to be stronger next time. But I'm a man, not a woman, so I don't know what it's like to have or be a pvssy.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
So she did what women always do. lol
